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Chief Timothy Shemahallsee

A 2011 dissertation records that Timothy Shemahallsee was Chief at Pekeyst on the east bank of the Thompson River in the late nineteenth century.

A 2011 dissertation by a Pukaist descendant records that Timothy Shemahallsee was Chief at Pekeyst (Pokaist/Pakyst) on the east bank of the Thompson River in the late nineteenth century.

This is one of the clearest references to named leadership at Pokaist in the available public sources.

Chief Timothy Shemahallsee

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